The Old Bay Line by Brown, Alexander Crosby - 1940

Bonanza. Very Good. Hardcover. 0517224941 . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 176 pages .

NY: Bonanza Books, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. xv, 172pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Bonanza Books; Crown Publishers, 1940. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Clean crisp clipped dust-jacket, fresh covers with gilt lettering on spine, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Contains black and white illustrations. Undated by publisher. A small adhesive label on the lower edge of the reverse of the rear end-paper with the previous owner's collection reference.. Copyright date only. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 75121101022. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

The Dietz Press, 1940. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Green cloth over boards. Red band on cover with white lettering. Red lettering on spine. Bottom of book has water stain and lightly wrinkled pages. Book has no odor.

Bonanza Books, 1940. facsimile 1977. vg/vg mylar. A history of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company from 1840-1940. 176 pages including index.

Richmond, VA: The Dietz Press, 1940. 176 pp. Original gray cloth covers, lightly soiled w/ modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine a bit sunned. Light dusting to top edge of text block. Date written in pencil at top margin of front blank endpaper. Flap from DJ laid-in. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece, and b/w photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Bonanza Books, [1977?]. Reprint edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. xv, [1], 176 pages. With 57 Illustrations (including map). Appendix (List of Incorporators and Presidents, Route and Schedule, Roster of Ships, 1840-1940). Bibliography. Index. Ink notations inside front cover. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Some page soiling and staining. Introduction by Legh R. Powell, Jr. , President of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company. Brown authored more than twenty-two books, mostly with maritime subjects. He sailed around the world and was an authority on the Chesapeake Bay, its canals, steamboats, and shipping. He was a former editor of American Neptune, and the Daily Press (Newport News, Va.), and on the staff of the Mariners Museum before his death in 1993. One of the Old Bay Line's steamers, the former President Warfield, later became famous as the Exodus ship of book and movie fame, when Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe sailed aboard her… Read More